Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-30

price TO pay for il il we are to lose our
noses as we'll rs our hair. III this ever
happens the civilized world will, for
one thing, have to revise its standard OF
comeliness. II may be that the civil
lied man of the future will see no
beauty in q Greek statue unless 1t has
lost its nose, which, 1t is true. Is the case
with most OF them.
Otter Belt, one Of the greatest OF
Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Terri
tory few days ago. Five minutes
before his death they held him erect
and iigged him out in his best war cos
tune. They painted him red, set his
war bonnet on his head. tied up his
hair in beaver-skins, and laid him down
just as he died. Then his five wives
took sharp butcher-knives, slashcd
their faces with long, deep cats, cut
themselves in other places, and be It
TIER bleeding bodies and pulled their
hair. They also burned everything
they had, tepees, furniture, and even
most of the clothing they had on. A
big crowd of bucks looked on and
killed ten horses, including a favorIte
team OF Fress AddingtOn, on whose
ranch Otter Belt lived.
An iron column twenty-thr5e feet
long and weighing over 5000 pounds
part of a new lighthouse being built
was recently landed at Bishop Rock,
England, and storm coming up, was
left dashed by half-inch chain at each
end to strong eyehOlts. Three days
afterward the workmen returned and
found that the column had been tossed
up by tie waves twenty feet to the top
of the rock, where it was sWaying about
like a piece Of timber. Two days after
ward, when they were able to land, the
workmen found that a blacksmiths
anvil weighing $50 pounds, which they
had left in hole three and half feet
deep and only two and a half feet in
diameter, had also been washed by the
waves completely out OF the hole.
New South Wales has sent to the
Queen for her approval an act facili-
tating divorce which equals the famous
Illinois and Connecticut laws. 1t pro-
vides that whenever husband aud
wife remain away from one another
for three years without personal
or written communication either
may get n divorce. Cruelty con-
tip ded for two years is n Legitimate
ground against the husband, but not
against the wife. A continual habit of
drunkenness for two years is, however,
q valid pea 70: either party to put in
against the other, provided it prevents
the husband from providing for the wife
or the wife from performing her domes-
tic duties. A man, apparently, may
keep as drunk as he pleases, provided
he Liyes his wife plenty of money.
Eighty eight men, who are called
"rebe's, belonging to a certain reli-
gious sect" have been heheaded at one
time in Chang Chou, China. The Of
fence Of this sect seems to be that they
apreRr in the streets rs vendors of chill
drens toys, the chief of which are cash
swords, daggers, and dragons, each
formed out of $50 Of the cash coins,
strung together in various shapes.
They are said to have annoyed the peo-
pie a great deal 10y cheating the chill
drCp, and TO have caused much dis
turbaDce by hirgjug about prices, and
a Cbirose paper naively adds: "Since
the aforementioned cases have been
50 seye' ely dealt with not enc OF them
has been seen on the street. The peo-
pie highly appreciate the enforcement
Of stringent laws and prompt actor "
w pulling down part of a private
museum at % Soho Square, London,
The other day, the workmen found a
recess that had been closed up for half
a century. On the papclling inside
was written, in the handwriting OF Sir
Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cap
tain Cook, the diccoverer on his voy-
ages: instruments used, carvings,
weapons, and heads collected by Cap
'ain Cook during the voyage Of the
EndCayor }. Barks." Among the
relics in the recess were two mummied
ta,.o0ed heads Of New iceland chiefs,
a wooden bowl, with q lip, rsed for
handing around human blood in the
days of cannibalism models of rqtive
canoes, beautifully carved canoe-pad-
dies. andacorved wooden sceptre, with
tie words, presumably scratched on it
NV Captain Cook: MADE for me by
Wanga.-J. g."
"be first young girl to be cremated
in America was nine-Year. old Aida
Wei.sleder, the daughter Ct the SUI
pei ;ntendent OF the Brush Electric
Light Company in Cincinnati. Her
body WIS lmhed last week at the Gre
matory in that city. The corp.e,
N.ppped in white alum linen, with
white and yellow roses on rhe breast,
was slid into the retort by two at
teldants. who at once retired. and in
the stilIuess that follow, d tie mourners
codld hear the puff aud sizzle of the
gases OF the body as tie heat devourcd
It. After IN hour the blue flames
stopped circling about the body, and o
long white streak was s. en- where it hal
been. These ashes, when gathered mp,
weighed lefs tran pound. Trey were
retul ned to the pare its and viii be pre-
.erved in an urn. 1t was the mint. in
c'neration at the crematOry.